Category Archives: War

America’s Second War of Independence

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 29, 2018

In this video, author Brian Kilmeade sheds light on the largely and unfortunately overlooked War of 1812. Kilmeade explains how this war got started, the daunting odds against a nation in its infancy, and the unlikely hero who secured America’s young nation’s future by pulling off one of the greatest upsets in military history.

Also posted in America, Prager University | Tagged Andrew Jackson, Prager University, War of 1812 | 2 Responses

10 Must See War Movies

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: November 8, 2017

There is no subject as well suited for the movies as war. In war there is conflict, love, and of course lots of action. Movies, said Hitchcock, are just like life, but with the boring parts cut out. Thus, movies about war delete the incredible boredom of most war-time experiences in favor of the hyper-drama […]

Also posted in Actors, Australia, Finland, Great Movies, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Lawrence of Arabia, Military, Movies, Myrna Loy, Peter O'Toole, Russia, Seven Samurai, Ten Greatest War Movies, War Movies, World War II, Zulu | Tagged Brest Fortress, City of Life and Death, Come and See, Cuckoo, Lawrence of Arabia, Ride With The Devil, Seven Samurai, The Lighthorsemen, Winter War, Zulu | 20 Responses

Memorial Day Weekend, 2017

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 28, 2017

On Memorial Day, we remember all the members of our armed services who paid the ultimate price in service to this great country. Our eternal gratitude.

Also posted in Abraham Avrech, America, Judaism, Judaism & Christianity, Memorial Day, World War II | Tagged 42nd Rainbow Division, Abraham Avrech, Chaplain Abraham Avrech, Jewish Chaplains, Korean war, Memorial Day, Vietnam | 1 Response

Birth of a Nation, Israel at 69

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 2, 2017

The other day, a friend asked me why so many people hate the Jews. I said: “We gave the world monotheism and morality. We insisted that there is right and wrong, good and evil. And HaShem made a covenant with His people that is eternal. The world has never forgiven us.

Also posted in Israel, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Judaism, Yom HaAtzmaut, Zionism | Tagged Israel Independance Day, Jew-hatred, Little Kotel, Morality, Yom HaAtzmaut | Leave a comment

Veteran’s Day, 2016: My Favorite Veteran, Rabbi Abraham Avrech z’l

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: November 11, 2016

My father, Rabbi Chaplain Abraham Avrech passed away on March 15, 2014. This is the third Veteran’s Day without my father’s physical presence in this world. He is gone, but like all veteran’s certainly not forgotten. Take a moment to ponder the enormous sacrifices made by our nation’s heroes and their families. Millions and millions […]

Also posted in Abraham Avrech, Judaism, Veterans Day | Tagged 42nd Division, Mina Avrech, Rabbi Chaplain Abraham Avrech, Rabbi Samuel Avrech, War, Yanuv Poland, Yeshiva University | 8 Responses

The Ten Greatest War Movies of All Time

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 14, 2016

Movies about war are ideally suited to the kinetic energy of motion pictures. The eternal themes of love, courage, and loyalty are given full range in the theater of war. Readers will immediately notice the absence of silent films and movies from Hollywood’s golden age. Yes, in spite of our love of classic cinema we […]

Also posted in Hollywood, War Movies, World War II, World War III, Zulu | Tagged Come and See, Duck You Sucker, Gettysburg, Lawrence of Arabia, Myrna Loy, Patton, Ride With The Devil, Seven Samurai, The Lighthorsemen, The Winter War, Zulu | 23 Responses

Peace and Love and their Murderous Consequences

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 22, 2016

Among the pile of books on my night table, there are always a few volumes about war. It should be obvious to any clear-thinking person that war is the final arbiter of all great conflicts. Those who speak of negotiated peace speak of fiction. The great world wars have made this world what it is, […]

Also posted in America, Islam, Islam Denial, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazi Kidnappings, IslamoNazis, Jihad Watch, War Movies, Weapons | Tagged Jihad, Koran, Love, Marxism, Peace, Peaceniks, Radical Islam | 8 Responses

Memorial Day 2016

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 29, 2016

On Memorial Day, we remember all the members of our armed services who paid the ultimate price in service to this great country. Our eternal gratitude.

Also posted in Abraham Avrech, America, Memorial Day | Tagged 42nd Rainbow Division, Abraham Avrech, Jewish Chaplains, Korea, Memorial Day Weekend, Veterans, Vietnam, World War II | 10 Responses

Trump Rescues William Tecumseh Sherman

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 25, 2016

The New York Times just did a hatchet job about Trump and women which ended up making the NY Times look far worse than Trump. The Washington Post hired 20 extra reporters to investigate Trump — just as they did not do when Barack Obama was the Democrat nominee. I recently came across a story […]

Also posted in 2016 Election, Art, Donald Trump, Media, Military | Tagged Augustus Saint-Gauden, Glory, Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment, Robert Gould Shaw, Robert Hughes, William Tecumseh Sherman | 10 Responses

British SAS Uses Israeli Dan .338 Sniper Rifle to Decapitate IslamoNazi

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: February 18, 2016

I don’t know about you, but here at Seraphic Secret we desperately need some good news. Watching the Democrat Socialist Party of America is a bit like observing the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks maneuvering for supremacy. And then there are the Republicans, who should easily win the next election, but are busily engaged in what can […]

Also posted in Islam, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Sharia, Syria, Weapons | Tagged British Sniper, Dan .338 Sniper Rifle, SAS | 3 Responses

Obama’s Bad Idea About Bad Ideas

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: July 8, 2015

Yesterday, at West Point, President Obama said, “Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated with better ideas — a more attractive and compelling vision.” This statement is one more pious leftist pronouncement that is demonstrably false. Slavery in the United States was an evil ideology that was defeated by the force of arms […]

Also posted in IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Obama Watch | Tagged Good ideologies vs. Bad ideologies | 4 Responses

Should America be the World’s Policeman? Prager University

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 26, 2015

Another excellent video from Prager University, this one featuring Bret Stephens. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=176KRhEAgUs[/youtube]

Also posted in America | Tagged Bret Stephens, Prager University | 4 Responses

The IDFs Secret Weapon: Autistic Intelligence Analysts

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 6, 2015

My wife, Karen, is a brilliant and gifted psychologist. Over the years I have learned a great deal about autism, and in the process shed many misconceptions. This entry from the IDF Blog highlights how the Jewish state gives responsibility to those on the spectrum with some of the most important and sensitive military intelligence. […]

Also posted in Israel, Israel Defense Forces | Tagged Autism, IDF Blog, Inside the IDF, Israeli Intelligence Analysts, Roim Rachok Program, Unit 9900 | 6 Responses

Holocaust Memorial Day: Death March to Dachau

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 16, 2015

One of my closest friends here in Los Angeles is Mr. Sol Teichman, a prominent citizen, businessman, philanthropist, and a Holocaust survivor. Born on September 9, 1927, in the Hungarian town of Munkacs, Sol’s family were prominent and prosperous grain, bean and walnut merchants. The family lived in a lovely home in a quiet cul-de-sac […]

Also posted in History, Holocaust Memorial Day, Sol Teichman, World War III | Tagged Dachau, Death March, Jews of Hungary, Munkacs Hasidic Dynasty, Sol Teichman, Survivors | 7 Responses

Everything You Need to Know About Hamas in Eight Words

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 1, 2014

“Hamas never targets civilians. It only targets Jews.” —Hamas spokesman, Abu Odeh Israel miscalculated horribly in accepting a humanitarian cease-fire.

Also posted in Hamas, Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Military, Operation Protective Edge | Tagged Hadar Goldin, Hamas War Crimes, Kidnapping | 27 Responses

Why Did Hamas Launch Its Current Rocket Offensive Against Israel?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: July 21, 2014

Here’s an excellent article from MEMRI. Introduction The current Gaza conflict, which broke out following a deliberate escalation by Hamas when it fired dozens of rockets into Israeli cities over a wide radius (including Beersheba, Rehovot, and Ashdod and later Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa) raises questions about the reasons for this rocket offensive by […]

Also posted in Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Operation Protective Edge | Tagged Hamas Rockets, MEMRI, Tunnels of Gaza | 3 Responses

YAMAS – Israel’s Special Counter Terrorist Unit

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 13, 2012

Yamas (Hebrew: יחידת המסתערבים‎, Yehidat HaMista’arvim) is an undercover special operations unit attached to the Israeli Border Police (Magav). YAMAS is one of the most elite counter-terror units in the world. The primary work of Yamas is intelligence gathering and surveillance in order to target and eliminate mortal threats. The host of the show, Chris […]

Also posted in Counterterrorism, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Weapons | Tagged Chris Ryan, Magav, SAS, YAMAS | 6 Responses

Of Flame and Flames

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 29, 2012

By now you’ve probably heard about Flame, a sophisticated cyber attack aimed at Iran and other Islamist nets. Israel is playing coy, hinting that this super bug, like Stuxnet, just might be an Israeli operation. Seraphic Secret has no doubt that Flame is an Israeli cyber weapon developed by Unit 8200 and we welcome every […]

Also posted in Internet, Iran, Israel, Unit 8200, Weapons | Tagged Cyberwarfare, Flame, Stuxnet | 5 Responses

Notable War Movies, Russian and Finnish

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 12, 2012

Seraphic Secret watches movies in thematic clusters. Last year I concentrated on the work of specific actors, among them: Clara Bow, John Gilbert, Mary Nolan, Lon Chaney, Esther Ralston and, adolescent sigh, Brigitte Bardot. For the past few weeks I’ve been screening war movies, with an emphasis on films from Russia and Finland. World War […]

Also posted in Finland, Movies, War Movies | Tagged Antti Tuuri, Birth of a Nation, Continuation War, Cuckoo, Finland, Finnish War Movies, Lappland, Lielle Meital, Passover, Russia, Sami, Shabbat, Suomi submachine gun, The Brest Fortress, Winter War | 12 Responses

Three More Notable War Movies

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: February 9, 2012

As we noted last week stories about war are, perhaps, the best, most natural material for the movies. Because war is a constant in human history and because war brings out the best and worst in man, every country that has a movie industry will, sooner or later, produce a body of war movies that […]

Also posted in Movies, War Movies | Tagged Bravo Two Zero, Johnny Mad Dog, Miklós Jancsó's, The Red and the White, War Movies | 5 Responses

How I Married Karen

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About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Fifteenth: June 10, 2018
Jackie Danicki: “Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”

Blog Post | Audio: (94 MB)

Fourteenth: June 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

Thirteenth: May 22, 2016Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

Blog Post | Audio: (70 MB)

Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

Blog Post | Audio: (97MB)

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

Blog Post | Audio: (16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

Blog Post | Audio: (15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

Blog Post | Audio: (18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

Blog Post | Audio: (80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

Blog Post | Audio: (64MB)

Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

Blog Post | Audio: (70MB)
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